Betamax might have been a consumer failure, but I had to use it as recently as 2009 because some TV stations would only take our commercials in a Betamax format

Betamax might have been a consumer failure, but I had to use it as recently as 2009 because some TV stations would only take our commercials in a Betamax format. Granted, it was for some local Spanish stations that just had a bunch of old equipment, but I was surprised that it popped up. I'm still not sure what the ad was about, because I don't speak Spanish, but it was a political ad. I just did audio post-production on it.